Explore the panchmayakosha model and incorporate it into your yoga classes

Level Five brings together all that you’ve learned in your YogaFit 200-hour teacher training, and shifts the emphasis from external accomplishments to internal growth. Applying the powerful practice of staying in the present moment, an integral tenet of the essence of YogaFit, this two-day intensive may be the end of your official teacher training, but it’s just the beginning of your journey inward toward true integration.

Note: All participants are required to complete the Brief Strengths Test, authentichappiness.org, print individual results, and bring these results to the training.

YogaFit Teacher Training (YTT) Foundation (Level One) | YogaFit Yoga Teacher Training

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YogaFit’s two day Yin Yoga training focuses on the other areas of our body often not considered in most yoga practices or fitness modalities. We are focused on the deeper tissues of our body: bones, joints, fascia and ligaments.  All of our tissues are important and need to be exercised so that we can achieve optimal health and vitality.  Throughout the training, we consistently work on surrendering to the pose, finding a sense of comfort through discomfort, learning to celebrate the stillness, while connecting with mindfulness.

In this course, we will take a deeper dive into the history of sound as a therapeutic model and follow its trajectory into modern methods of healing in both the Western and Eastern models. Blending ancient wisdom with modern science, we will explore how everything is vibration and has the potential to be healed through vibration.  Along with gaining an understanding of how sound and vibration can change our blueprint, we will explore practical applications of utilizing instruments and mantra in group and private client settings to stimulate healing.  

The human biofield contains the record of our memories and the blueprint of our physical bodies embedded as energy and information in standing waves within this structure.  In this training, through the use of tuning forks and sound bowls, we will learn to hear the field to gain information about the client and integrate this information into the physical body for digestion and assimilation, creating a potential healing effect for the client. The tuning forks are used first as a diagnostic tool to find the dissonance in the individual’s energy field and second as a means of creating entrainment and coherence of the body with the forks and bowls.

Sound and vibrational healing, as described in the yogic texts of old, has been practiced in the East for millennia. Come explore the ancient practice of sound healing in this two­ day workshop, learn the therapeutic healing power of sound and vibration, and discover why music, chanting, and toning continue to have a profound effect on our physical and emotional well being.

The first step on the path toward becoming a yoga teacher or simply deepening your practice, YogaFit Teacher Training (YTT) Foundations (Level One) is accepted by most fitness centers because it provides the foundation and tools to create inspiring vinyasa yoga classes grounded in proper alignment and the safety of exercise science.

Somatosensory yoga is a type of yoga practice that focuses on the sensory experience of the body through movements and postures. It emphasizes the use of internal sensations, such as breath and muscle contractions, to guide and refine physical movements. The somatosensory cortex is a part of the brain that processes sensory information from the body, including touch, temperature, and pain. This part of the brain gets strongly activated during traumatic and stressful events and especially ones that elicit the Fight-Flight-Freeze response. The body prepares for either fighting off the threat (fight), running away from it (flight), or shutting down and becoming immobile (freeze) to minimize harm. This is an adaptive response during a stressful event but if this pattern is left unresolved or is constantly activated then it can cause our neurophysiology to become stuck “on” or stuck” off”. Somatosensory yoga practices can help to flip the switch off or back on depending on our state of hyper or hypo arousal and gets to the source of these unresolved tension patterns in the body-mind.

Directing the focus more inward, Level Three emphasizes the modern application of the philosophical and metaphysical aspects of yoga, paying particular attention to the seven chakras and how they foster a deeper sense of self-awareness. In this two-day intensive, you will learn how to use your intuition as well as your anatomical knowledge to give your students effective hands-on assists. 

With a focus on developmental trauma disorder, a new and vastly expanded tool for understanding early childhood trauma, this special therapeutically oriented workshop centers on the unique way a child’s nervous system and brain respond to traumatic events, including chronic emotional and physical abuse and neglect. We will address somatic gaps in current therapies available and the challenges inherent in treating children suffering from PTSD.  

Note: YogaFit for WarriorKids counts as an elective for either the 200-­hour or the 300-­hour training, but not both. This two-­day workshop also counts toward YogaFit’s 100-­hour and 140­-hour YogaFit for Warriors certification; the 100-­hour YogaFit for WarriorKids certification; and YogaFit’s 900­-hour YogaFit HealthCare certification.

Course Description: In this course, we will take a deeper dive into the history of sound as a therapeutic model and follow its trajectory into modern methods of healing in both the Western and Eastern models. Blending ancient wisdom with modern science, we will explore how everything is vibration and has the potential to be healed through vibration.  Along with gaining an understanding of how sound and vibration can change our blueprint, we will explore practical applications of utilizing instruments and mantra in group and private client settings to stimulate healing.  

SOUND AND MANTRA IS A PREREQUISITE.

Sound and vibrational healing, as described in the yogic texts of old, has been practiced in the East for millennia. Come explore the ancient practice of sound healing in this two­ day workshop, learn the therapeutic healing power of sound and vibration, and discover why music, chanting, and toning continue to have a profound effect on our physical and emotional well being.

Level Four continues where Level Three left off, exploring more challenging practices and the preparation for each of them. But the real emphasis is on how to weave elements of yoga's ancient tradition into your practice, life, and teaching. This fourday intensive delves deeper into the Yoga Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita, and some of the more esoteric elements of yoga, such as chakras, mudras (hand gestures), and sound.

**Please note: Due to the scheduling involved with Level 4 and 5, requests to transfer out of Level 4 or 5 trainings will result in a $100 transfer fee. 

The first step on the path toward becoming a yoga teacher or simply deepening your practice, Level One provides the tools to create inspiring vinyasa yoga classes grounded in proper alignment and the safety of exercise science. 

While there are no prerequisites for this course, we do require that all attendees read Beth Shaw's YogaFit prior to attending. This book explains the foundation of our entire teacher training program, and allows for better overall understanding of the material covered in our Level One Training. Please email edu@yogafit.com with any questions about Level One.

Note: In order to receive a Certificate of Completion for Level One, you must also complete eight hours of practice teaching as a community service, in which you bring the gift of yoga, free of charge, to individuals who would not normally be exposed to yoga on a regular basis.

Retrain: Please call Customer Service at 1-888-786-3111 to register for retrains of Level 1.  The retrain price is $199.

Directing the focus more inward, Level Three emphasizes the modern application of the philosophical and metaphysical aspects of yoga, paying particular attention to the seven chakras and how they foster a deeper sense of self-awareness. In this two-day intensive, you will learn how to use your intuition as well as your anatomical knowledge to give your students effective hands-on assists. 

Yogafit’s Intergenerational and Collective Trauma workshop is designed to explore the different types of “root” traumas to include attachment as well as intergenerational and collective trauma. We will explore the connection between attachment traumas and attunement and the origins of mis-attunement which has been linked to intergenerational and collective trauma. We will look at factors that can cause mis-attunement and ultimately inhibit our ability to connect to others.

Over the tumultuous last few years, we as a society are starting to bring more awareness to the importance of collective trauma. Many practical and spiritual experts on healing are realizing the exploration of collective trauma is at the leading edge of healing. The groundbreaking study of holocaust survivors showed how intergenerational and collective trauma gets created and passed through generations through DNA (Epigenetics) and a markedly reduced ability to handle stress leading to worse physical and mental health outcomes across a lifetime for future generations regardless of direct experience of trauma. Ultimately, intergenerational trauma means all of us are born into a pre-traumatized world. As we are witnessing, past trauma surfaces in times of increased stress and massive change making it imperative that we increase the capacities of individuals and groups to heal the collective trauma of our time.

We will look at ways our yoga practices may be supporting or even hindering our ability to cultivate awareness of self, the other and the collective field. We will explore practical exercises to support and strengthen attunement skills for yourself and others and we will learn how to harness the challenge of emotional wounds to turn them into post-traumatic growth, resilience, and learning. We will learn ways to increase our relational capacity to self-regulate and create coherent collective fields that support one another. We will explore and practice collective witnessing and learn to create a stronger field of witnessing presence as both a participant and observer and contemplate what effect this has on our collective physiology.

Find your flow and join us at Blue Bell Farm for a beautiful and immersive women's retreat.

Weekend Stay at Breathe Schedule

Friday

6:00pm - 6:30pm Arrive and settle in
6:30pm Meet and greet with Ayurvedic beverage

7:30pm - 9pm Full Flower Moon Circle

Saturday

7:30am morning meditation
8:00am breakfast
9:45am depart for Blue Bell Farm

Sunday

7:30am morning meditation
8:00am breakfast
9:30am closing circle
10:30am checkout

$315 per guest
Space is limited to 6 guests (for single rooms)

Double occupancy is available upon request and price will be adjusted accordingly. Please contact Catina at info@breatheatjjsfolly.com to reserve your weekend stay!

SATURDAY Schedule

10am - 10:30am Arrive at Blue Bell Farm

10:30am - 12pm Vinyasa Yoga
Morning class Vinyasa Flow (75 minutes)

A dynamic class where the connection between breath and movement is maintained throughout. Using various poses (asanas) we use the breath to connect the mind and body through movement, In addition, the breath is used in postures to help you go deeper and find stronger alignment within each pose. The result is a graceful, mindful, and flowing yoga experience.

12pm - 2pm Lunch & Pop Up Local Makers Shop

Delicious vegetarian lunch provided by Beetbox Restaurant

2pm - 3pm Post-lunch Walk and Forest Meditation:

As we walk, you will be prompted to get in touch with the 5 elements in nature. We will complete the walk, lying down in a grassy knoll surrounded by trees to continue our meditation as we unite our chakras with the elements, manifesting ourselves as one with the natural flow of life.

3:30pm - 5pm Afternoon Yin & Sound Bath (90 minutes): 45 minutes of Yin yoga followed by 45 minutes of a sound bath.

Yin Yoga: Yin yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga that uses specific asanas (postures) that are held for longer periods of time, typically from 1 minute to five minutes or more, depending on the posture. These postures access deeper layers of the fascia, promoting essential balance in our mental and physical bodies.

A Sound Bath is a meditative experience where students are “bathed” in sound waves as they lie in a relaxing savasana with props to support their comfort. These waves are produced by various sources, including healing instruments such as gongs, crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, flute, percussion, chimes, harmonium, tuning forks, and even the human voice itself. Students will experience a state of harmony through sound in order to clear discordance from the participants' energy fields. Among the benefits are relaxation, an increased sense of well-being, expanded awareness, and access to inner visionary experience.

5pm - 6pm Relax on the patios and enjoy the views, music and delicious happy hour bites & beverages from Beetbox. Blue Bell Farm will also have wine and cocktails available for purchase at the bar.

Tickets for Saturday Retreat are $145.

Yoga classes, meditations and the sound bath will be led by Catina Topash. For a full weekend retreat experience, guests can book a two nights stay at Catina's lovely lakeside B&B, Breathe at JJ's Folly. The weekend stay at Breathe is an optional add on experience and is not included in the day retreat price.